These vegan biscoff cupcakes are fluffy, moist and simply divine. Loaded with biscoff flavor and topped with vegan biscoff buttercream and crushed biscoff cookies.
These vegan biscoff cupcakes are a dream come true for biscoff lovers everywhere! And I count myself very firmly in that camp. Ever since I first tasted biscoff cookie butter I have been in love with it.
So it’s no surprise that we made a vegan biscoff cake and vegan biscoff brownies and now here we are with these vegan biscoff cupcakes.
They are super easy to make, heaps of fun and look absolutely gorgeous too.
And if you love cupcakes then you’ll also love our vegan banana cupcakes, vegan carrot cake cupcakes and vegan lemon cupcakes.
Ingredients You’ll Need For The Cupcakes:
Ingredients For The Frosting:
Ingredient Notes
- Canola oil – can be replaced with vegetable oil.
- Vegan buttermilk – is ideally made with a mix of soy milk and lemon juice, that curdles beautifully into vegan buttermilk. Soy milk is my favorite choice since it makes a really rich and creamy buttermilk. However, if you can’t do soy, then almond milk also works.
- Biscoff cookie butter – can usually be found near the peanut butter in your supermarket. If not though, then you can easily order it online (which is what I do). If you’re in the USA then feel free to use Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter instead.
- Biscoff cookies – (not pictured) are used to decorate these cupcakes. They’re completely optional, but they do look awesome! If you have any struggle finding them locally, then you can get them online.
How To Make Vegan Biscoff Cupcakes
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
Cupcakes:
- Sift all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add light brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix together.
- Prepare your vegan buttermilk by adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to a measuring jug and then adding soy milk up to the 1 cup line. Let it curdle.
- Add vegan buttermilk, melted biscoff cookie butter, canola oil and vanilla extract and mix into a batter. Don’t overmix.
- Divide the batter evenly between the 12 cupcake liners in your cupcake tray.
- Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.
- Let the cupcakes cool for a couple of minutes and then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Frosting:
- Add vegan butter and biscoff cookie butter to the bowl of your stand mixer and beat together until smooth.
- Add powdered sugar and soy milk and beat in until smooth and fluffy.
- When the cupcakes are completely cooled, pipe on the frosting and decorate them with crushed biscoff cookies and cookie halves (optional).
Baker’s Tips
Weigh your flour. Either weigh your flour out on a food scale or use the spoon and level method to measure the flour. To spoon and level, simply spoon the flour into your measuring cup and then level off the top with the back of a knife. Don’t scoop it or pack it into the cup.
Melt the biscoff cookie butter before using it in your cupcake batter. The easiest way to melt biscoff is to place it into a microwave safe bowl and microwave in 15-second intervals, bringing it out to stir every 15-seconds until melted.
Don’t overmix the batter. Mix it briefly until just mixed and then stop mixing.
Bake the cupcakes right away. Once you’ve divided the batter between your cupcake liners, bake them right away. Letting the batter sit for too long can prevent them from rising properly.
Recipe Q&A
Can you make these cupcakes gluten-free? Use a gluten free all purpose baking blend in the same quantity for a gluten free version.
Can you make this recipe into a cake? This recipe will make a three layer 6-inch cake. Bake for 20 minutes.
Storing and Freezing
Store your cupcakes at room temperature in a covered container for 2-3 days or in the fridge (covered) for up to a week.
They are freezer friendly for up to 3 months (frosted or unfrosted). Let them thaw in the fridge. Bring to room temperature on the countertop before serving.
More Delicious Vegan Cupcakes
- Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes
- Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes
- Vegan Strawberry Cupcakes
- Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes
- Vegan Funfetti Cupcakes
- Vegan Blue Velvet Cupcakes
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Vegan Biscoff Cupcakes
Ingredients
Vegan Biscoff Cupcakes:
- 1 ¾ cups All Purpose Flour (218g)
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar (200g)
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Vegan Buttermilk (240ml) 1 Tablespoon lemon juice + soy milk up to the 1 cup line
- ¼ cup Biscoff Cookie Butter (63g) Melted
- ½ cup Canola Oil (120ml) or Vegetable Oil
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Vegan Biscoff Buttercream Frosting:
- 1 cup Vegan Butter (225g)
- 1 cup Biscoff Cookie Butter (250g)
- 3 cups Powdered Sugar (360g)
- 1-3 Tablespoons Soy Milk or other non-dairy milk
Decoration (Optional)
- 2 Biscoff Cookies Crushed
- 6 Biscoff Cookies Broken in Half
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and line a cupcake tray with 12 cupcake liners.
- Sift all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add light brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix together.
- Prepare your vegan buttermilk by adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to a measuring jug and then adding soy milk up to the 1 cup line. Let it curdle.
- Add vegan buttermilk, melted biscoff cookie butter, canola oil and vanilla extract and mix into a batter. Don't overmix.
- Divide the batter evenly between the 12 cupcake liners in your cupcake tray.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.
- Let the cupcakes cool for a couple of minutes and then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Frosting:
- Add vegan butter and biscoff cookie butter to the bowl of your stand mixer and beat together until smooth.
- Add powdered sugar and soy milk (start with 1 tablespoon and only add more if needed) and beat in until smooth and fluffy.
- When the cupcakes are completely cooled, pipe on the frosting and decorate them with crushed biscoff cookies and cookie halves (optional).
Notes
- Weigh your flour. Either weigh your flour out on a food scale or use the spoon and level method to measure the flour. To spoon and level, simply spoon the flour into your measuring cup and then level off the top with the back of a knife. Don’t scoop it or pack it into the cup.
- Vegan buttermilk – is ideally made with a mix of soy milk and lemon juice, that curdles beautifully into vegan buttermilk. Soy milk is my favorite choice since it makes a really rich and creamy buttermilk. However, if you can’t do soy, then almond milk also works.
- Biscoff cookie butter – can usually be found near the peanut butter in your supermarket. If not though, then you can easily order it online. If you’re in the USA then feel free to use Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter instead.
- Biscoff cookies – are completely optional, but they do look awesome! If you have any struggle finding them locally, then you can also order them online.
- To melt biscoff cookie butter: The easiest way to melt biscoff cookie butter is to place it into a microwave safe bowl and microwave in 15-second intervals, bringing it out to stir every 15-seconds until melted.
- Make them gluten free:Use a gluten free all purpose baking blend in the same quantity for a gluten free version.
- Make a layer cake: This recipe will make a three layer 6-inch cake. Bake for 20 minutes.
- Storing: Store your cupcakes at room temperature in a covered container for 2-3 days or in the fridge (covered) for up to a week.
- Freezing: They are freezer friendly for up to 3 months (frosted or unfrosted). Let them thaw in the fridge. Bring to room temperature on the countertop before serving.
- Nutritional information is for everything including frosting and biscoff cookie topping.
I love making this and impresses my friends and family every time. I reduce the sugar in the cupcakes but a quarter – and they taste so good. Great for a treat – I have to stop myself reaching for more than one.
Every recipe that I have tried from your site, has turned out so well.
Thank you <3
Awesome! Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe and thanks for your great review!
I’ve made these cupcakes and the cake and both got rave reviews from family and friends. The kids fight over who licks the bowl! So good!
Happy to hear you and your family enjoy the recipe Kirsty!
Delicious delicious delicious! I messed up a step(not sifting flour) and I mixed all purpose and whole wheat flour and it still delivered. All the recipes I’ve tried slaps as my son says lol. So excited to try more of your recipes, you have made going vegan a breeze!
That’s awesome Cheryl! Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe and thanks so much for your great review!
Alison, thank you so much for this recipe! These cupcakes are delicious. Nice and soft and fluffy with a lovely caramelized flavor. Will definitely make again. I prefer a less sweet frosting, so I used only 240 grams of powdered sugar (2/3 the amount) but next time I will halve the amount as it was still a bit too sweet for me. Even though I used less powdered sugar the frosting was still very thick (maybe because I used trader joe’s brand cookie butter?) so I think reducing it by half should still result in a nice pipable consistency, in case anyone reading is curious about reducing the sugar as well! I also bet these would be fantastic with a coconut whipped cream flavored with cookie butter, yumm!
Thank you so much for sharing and for your wonderful review Jordan!
Hi, just wondering how you mixed the cupcake batter? Just folding though with a spatula or with an electric mixer?
They tasted amazing, thanks for recipe. Unfortunately my actual cake part came out a little dense and dry
So sorry to hear that Cassie! We mixed the batter with a spatula until the batter was just combined. A handheld mixer can cause overmixing. Thanks for the review and hopefully your next try will be moist and fluffy! 🙂
Another winner. I have made so many cakes from your amazing site and ever one of them comes out perfectly. And they are so easy.. I take them to work and people say they are the best cakes they have ever had and are always so surprised when I say they are vegan. I put off trying this one because I didn’t think we had the Biscoff spread in Australia. So surprised it and the biscuits are vegan and so surprised it is easy to find. Love all your recipes!
That’s awesome and I’m so happy you can get the Biscoff there too! Thank you so much for your great review!
wow! these turned out amazing! I’ve had my eye on the recipe for ages trying to find a chance to bake them just hadn’t happened. so when we combined a birthday with Fathers day I jumped in with offering to bring cake! these did not disappoint! I had 2 young helpers (and worried we may have over mixed the batter) and we got 12 beautifully soft, fluffy cupcakes with a lovely buttercream! Thankyou so much for sharing this recipe! it’s definitely going into my make it again!
So glad you enjoyed the recipe! And thank you for your great review!
These turned out perfect!
Awesome! Thanks Bettina!
The plain cupcakes came out lovely in texture but I thought they were too sweet (I don’t have an excessively sweet tooth), would reducing the amount of sugar effect the cake recipe?? Or would it not work and not bake properly?. Also I ended up with so much buttercream which was very sweet (obvs the biscoff spread is very sweet anyway in itself!) ! My husband loved the finished cupcakes but for me they were too sweet so I think you could get away with half the amount of frosting and just put a Dollop on! But that’s prob my preference!
Hi there, yes the amount of frosting is so that you can pipe on a generous amount as we’ve pictured. So if you just want a small amount you can halve the buttercream. You can also reduce the sugar in the cupcakes if you prefer, I wouldn’t reduce it by more than half though, but you can try that and see how they turn out.
Oh Alison these are delicious and easy to make. Thank you for another great tasting recipe!
Thanks Susan!
Absolutely loved these. They are easy to make and tastes amazing!! Thanks so much for the recipe!
These are INCREDIBLE! I’ve already made 3 batches of them for a birthday. Have been a hit with everyone who’s tried them. Thank you for this recipe! Super easy to do as well.
Thanks so much Emily!
Whenever I make vegan butter cream it’s always so slack. What brand butter do you use please?
Hi Dani, at the moment my favorite brand is Flora Plant Butter. It’s available in the USA and UK and it really works great. Earth Balance buttery sticks also work really well.
Great recipe. I made these with GF flour and they came out well. Initially I thought the cupcake mixture looked too wet but it worked. I halved the icing recipe as I wasn’t piping all the cupcakes.
Happy that it worked out for you! Thanks so much for your review! 🙂